Executive Profile

James E. Silcott AIA

Background

James E. Silcott, AIA serves as Chairman of the Los Angeles California Area Planning Commission. Mr. Silcott has been Trustee of Howard University Hospital since 2003. He also serves as a Board Member of the Kennard Design Group. He is the first African-American project architect for Los Angeles County and the University of California. He retired in 1985 to manage his real estate holdings. Some of his architectural projects for Los Angeles County include: the Martin ... Luther King Hospital, John Wesley Hospital, Hubert Humphrey Clinic, Inglewood Courts Building, Compton Courts Building, the first medical school, both clinical and basic sciences, at the University of California at Irvine, the Jules Stein Eye Clinic at UCLA, and the UCLA Boathouse at Marina Del Rey. He received the Kresge Coca-Cola Award for philanthropy to Historically Black Colleges and Universities in 2003. He was the Howard H. Mackey Lecturer celebrating the 95th anniversary of architecture education at Howard University in 2006. Mr. Silcott received a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard in 1957, and served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army.

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